Word Meanings - ELECTUARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection. (more info) lettuaire, electuaire, F. électuaire, L. electuarium, electarium.
Related words: (words related to ELECTUARY)
- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - COMPOSITOUS
Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - HONEYED
1. Covered with honey. 2. Sweet, as, honeyed words. Milton. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - UNDERDELVE
To delve under. - UNDERSTOOD
imp. & p. p. of Understand. - HONEYWORT
A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon. - UNDERDO
To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - INDECOMPOSABLENESS
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - DUNDERHEAD
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl. - TEN-POUNDER
A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.